radius250 2015

May 22 - July 19, 2015

Mary Anne Hensley, Richmond, VA

Not long ago I rescued a manila envelope from a closet recess. It was stuffed with papers ripped from a spiral notebook. I recognized them as home hospice notes documenting my motherís care during her final days. This emotionally charged artifact became an invitation to participate with the content in a new way. Using a website, thirty-two dates were transcribed into ubiquitous looking QR codes. The patterns were then hand drawn in inks, scanned and printed on transparent paper. In the triptych arrangements, density, color, shadow and space play their roles as visual metaphors of our last shared days.